What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? 158
coondoggie writes "The US Department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Ultimately, the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics, the DOE stated. Magellan will explore whether cloud computing can help meet the overwhelming demand for scientific computing. Although computation is an increasingly important tool for scientific discovery, and DOE operates some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, not all research applications require such massive computing power. The number of scientists who would benefit from mid-range computing far exceeds the amount of available resources, the DEO stated."
In socialist America (Score:0, Funny)
I assume this doesn't just include the cloud . . . (Score:2, Funny)
oh oh (Score:2, Funny)
"The number of scientists who would benefit from mid-range computing far exceeds the amount of available resources, the DEO stated."
This sounds like one of those far-fetched statements that more realistically would be answered as "eleventy-billion."
Re:Wrong question. (Score:1, Funny)
Obviously, a Beowulf cluster of clouds! Maybe we can call it Hurricane Computing!
Large Magellanic Cloud (Score:1, Funny)
Clearly they're trying to create the Large Magellanic Cloud [wikipedia.org].
Re:Wrong question. (Score:2, Funny)
Frankly I`m just suprised that the US government has a whole department dedicated to wasting energy.
If they simulate nuclear reactions... (Score:5, Funny)
...would that be mushroom cloud computing?
Re:In socialist America (Score:2, Funny)
The DOE stated.
Large Magellanic Cloud (Score:5, Funny)
Just call it the Large Magellanic Cloud
Cloud Computing Joke (Score:2, Funny)
What's the bright side of cloud computing?
When the cloud goes down, it's a bright and sunny day.
Re:$32,000,000... (Score:4, Funny)
I'd my city council spend it on a Cloud Computing Centre.
And schools to [intentionally left blank] how to use verbs in sentences.
Re:Wrong question. (Score:5, Funny)
They have to have somewhere to park the black helicopters